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Mindfulness Training to Promote Healthy Diet and Physical Activity in Teens

NCT01975896 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 53

Last updated 2015-07-08

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Summary

This project will compare the preliminary efficacy of a novel school-delivered intervention, mindfulness plus health education intervention, to health education alone on dietary and physical activity habits in adolescents. This study has important public health implications because of the negative consequences of unhealthy diets and lack of exercise on health, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. If effective, this intervention has high potential for translation to high school settings

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Meditation

The intervention's curriculum will include: 1) the body scan; 2) training in the awareness of the sensations of breathing; 3) training in directing the attention to simple activities of daily life; 4) practice of 'open awareness' in which students will be instructed to just notice which events (physical sensation, sound, visual object, thought) their attention is spontaneously drawn to from moment to moment; 5) mindful movement (standing and walking exercises); and 6) mindful eating. In addition to the weekly training session, students will practice mindfulness techniques for 15 minutes daily in class with the health education teacher and for an additional 15 minutes daily on their own

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, PhD, MD · Brown University, Providence, RI

  • Lori Pbert, PhD · University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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